Iowa Caucus Numbers Continue to Trickle In

1/4/2012 12:23AM

WSJ's Patrick O'Connor joins us from the Des Moines, Iowa filing center where returns are coming in. With a few counties left to be counted, it's still looking like a close call between Romney, Santorum and Paul. Photo: AP.

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... the back out to Iowa where ... Patrick O'Connor is breaking the call ... that were Division I ... she didn't filing ... so in Ottawa for three depraved thankfully had a party right I'm glad to keep it warm arguing the point ... yet I'm in the filing said there were other than to come in and then that you don't have a crawling with Politico that the point that ... what the Democrat ... machine back up the mess that is both the Republicans are out in actually in the polling site ... yes and and what's your relieved of ... that he didn't say anything about ... that earlier reported precincts that ... that will help us ... predict the results ... we I mean right now it looks like we are still waiting on the river counted in the dairy ... aisle where the Rodney with it but that he pretty well he won the last time ... we're still waiting on story County which is where she and the University of Iowa in our universe Iowa Iowa State University where Ron Paul's book to be pretty well ... another county for a fall in the queue well ... but the ball to the places that have not yet reported Arbor rural counties where ... I've been with all one candidate his name by Mark was ripped and tore up to buy it I think you know ... the result first team now probably won't vary too much to the end of the time in a couple ... of when are you up or down for any these guys ... but it looks like we're going to get a pretty went to agree with the result of the data By Weber one of the three to get ... and it appears to have three literally predicted commented that ... no no chance at this point with half and half result and that the new came into Rick Perry had seen in the last minute so ... I think that typically don't be Obel impossible ... from the last little survey that I did most of the tip of the ... county to the report are in are well over fifty percent a lot of work but eighty percent ... off and the ... cafe that have not yet reported ... are mostly were all not the population that are thought to be really tough ready those guys that that that you out to play catch up ... and and packaging thing they can use results and surprise you with the way that the street and that seven of the connectors are pretty much what you expected earlier today ... the ... moral us throw it back to the same time the symmetry a double dip ... potentially seventy five percent of the Republican electorate would be there for the day you know that when third with that with ... the probe is the guys going for Romney the ... the social conservatives want Orbitz Santorum and then ... you've got that ... the ... stranger on All Coalition and the ... Democrat independent of libertarian ... the smaller government ... I it's liberals who wanna get out of ... of of Afghanistan ... aam but that ... is ... moving out here we really it we've got ... we've had all year three very distinct right in with them that were up a little Levi with three very it that that credit line ... and what the big takeaway is from of reporting on the on the racing line with what what what you think are the ... lessons we've learned that in effect the ... campaign over the next ... eleven months ... well I think we have learned that Mitt Romney by a ... out of the key to his plan was able to get back to what he wanted to do ... which was that he kept the guide to the stock could trade them up money and go into a long way for them ... aam ... but he committed very little of high and very little resort to getting wealthier ... and even contention that people without ... the other big takeaway is the party that is that all the time and Rick Santorum driving around in ... the volunteer borrowed cars ... I didn't read the part that matters here I think it is ... great even more of the microscopy four years ago ... cruiser that he did a lot of time on the ground that here it doesn't matter if you have a lot of money are people WR ... I wonder better award you now you're in. in the aftermath of but there is clearly ... appeals to evangelical voters who are a big part of the electorate out there ... but doubt that he really work harder than anybody else I want to clearly rewarded them for that effort ... likewise Ron Paul he got a great organization out here that work very hard to rebuff article ... and they get everything you're supposed to do it ... it shows that the ... guy who we had that maybe would've written off early ... highs the fringe candidate that he has a very powerful organization that a default and cross country ... Campbell fraud he there for years to come ... and and had to cut the dough kudos for Rick Santorum for works of art visiting all the studies of the retail politics including the support of the people of Iowa team that wins tonight what is a kick the can happen in New Hampshire is at the open in South Carolina and Florida where he doesn't have the money or the organization ... that Mitt Romney hands ... it's a really good question and I think it's one that he cannot answer quickly ... off because obviously afford to leave to enter into it but people are basically competing that they can to Romney ... but he would probably have to win in South Carolina ... to get any momentum moving forward and even that make it tough to find some of my CAM ... thought he had not yet into work a lot of the negative attack some of its rival happened that a bubble top of Opel though ... the next couple weeks during the period down day for him ... and I don't know I don't know if you get going forward he got a much bigger with many of its expected he would have Andy Dalton to be the leader ... of the creator ... of conservative alternative to Mitt Romney in the way ... they did ... but as you read it probably has so much money in such a big organization that ... probably won't be enough of the law of contract one last question before we let you go I assume you'll be leaving the island probably headed straight to New Hampshire on ... YouTube I argued that the Rick Santorum of New Hampshire's Jon Huntsman who was there right now who was both ... spent an extraordinary man of time there is basically put all his campaigning in to New Hampshire ... you seen any sign that Huntsman can have the same kind of a last-minute surge ... that leaks in New Hampshire to Rick Santorum is enjoyed in Iowa ... and I really am ET the reader that not so much effort at the did this year ... I was talking about to enter a public until a couple paid to the kind of getting ready to go out there ... and the one thing that they had a bit different than perfect mom but that he hadn't done enough to distinguish himself from the Romney ... and because of that ... these people think that Mitt Romney's basically got that they thought of ... Arkansas for Monday people tell him ... he knows that this is a little bit better than it did not and does so ... that was never able really to separate herself from one guy you don't try to eat now ... could that change I've heard that good but does that mean Rick Santorum had going for it that ... he was unique in the field not that the daily unique among the people but he was running with the Rick Perry Michele Bachmann ... but the repeat from the eighty s I are on call or of Mitt Romney ... and yet were everybody else so therefore he was able to ... claim the mantle of the conservative alternative ... Jonathan is officially running to the ... Mitt Romney and that ... when the Romney ... the bank to finance it for six years and has all the money in the world that